by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Julian Taylor – The Ridge
Julian Taylor has spent his life living between two worlds, while not really being a member of either one. 50% West Indian and 25% Mohawk, he grew up as an indigenous person of colour, raised by a white step-grandmother. As…
by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on Album | Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher
Singer. Producer. Raconteur. Shares a band with Connor Oberst. Plays in a indie-supergroup with Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus. A winner on Twitter. An artist studying the world with an arched eyebrow, trying to find her place in the modern…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Larkin Poe – Self Made Man
“If you’re not going to kick down the door, why go into the room?” asks Rebecca Lovell. It’s really not much of a question for her or her sister and Larkin Poe bandmate, Megan. They are not about to enter…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Live | Laura Marling @ Union Chapel
In an alternate universe, Laura Marling would have just wrapped up an extensive North American and UK tour during which we’d have got a first listen to music from her seventh album Song For Our Daughter, scheduled for an August…
by Alice Sage • • Comments Off on Album | Humphrey – Humphrey
Recorded back in 1971 in a South Africa which was, at the time, ruled by Apartheid, Humphrey’s self-titled album is wonderful surprise dug out from the archives by Notes on a Journey. Left in obscurity for almost half a century,…
by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on Album | Hannah White & The Nordic Connections – Hannah White & The Nordic Connections
If Hannah White isn’t a name that you know, this is now the time to educate yourself. I remember seeing her play in Tooting a few years ago when I went to support another artist and she stole the evening.…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Stripmall Ballads – Distant
Phillips Saylor Wisor has led an interesting life, wandering the back roads of the American dream. With Distant he channels the ghosts of the highways and byways. He follows paths established by the likes of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson and…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Esther Rose – My Favorite Mistakes
“… only time will tell if I reawakened these songs or simply botched them up.” With those words Ester Rose introduces listeners to her EP of covers, My Favorite Mistakes. Covering songs by Sheryl Crowe, Nick Lowe, Roy Orbison and…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Todd Warner Moore – Overnight Flight
Only a few years back, Todd Warner Moore wrote his first set of lyrics for his ‘Birdsong’. Since, the artist has turned out well over sixty tracks. The philosophical troubadour of Hong Kong’s Lamma Island originally hails from across the…
by Pete Bate • • Comments Off on Album | Woods – Strange To Explain
Brooklyn’s Woods share heritage with the likes of Kevin Morby (their former bassist), Real Estate and Kurt Vile. But 11 albums into their career, Woods’ pastel psych-pop/folk remains more under the radar (in the UK at least) than their contemporaries.…